Naked Lunch

1991 · directed by David Cronenberg

Rating

70/100

Hit

no

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

Naked Lunch (1991), directed by David Cronenberg, rates 70/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Peter Weller
• Judy Davis
• Ian Holm
• Julian Sands
• Roy Scheider
• Monique Mercure
• Nicholas Campbell
• Michael Zelniker
• Robert A. Silverman
• Joseph Scoren

Crew

• Peter Suschitzky — Director of Photography
• Ronald Sanders — Editor
• Howard Shore — Original Music Composer
• Ornette Coleman — Original Music Composer
• David Cronenberg — Writer

More from David Cronenberg

1. The Fly (1986) — 84/100 · hit
2. Dead Ringers (1988) — 81/100 · hit
3. Eastern Promises (2007) — 79/100
4. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — 79/100
5. A History of Violence (2005) — 78/100
6. Videodrome (1983) — 75/100

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